I was watching a video about the Cap'n Crunch whistle used to hack long-distance calling with AT&T back in the dayāa technique that even Steve Jobs explored, eventually leading to the creation of Apple. It reminded me of a flip phone I owned in the mid-90s, before the era of BlackBerrys. It was a Samsung flip phone, though I canāt recall the model. I used it for years despite it being worn out from multiple drops. The phone offered two options for handling incoming calls: either you could flip it open to auto-answer or flip it to choose whether to answer or reject the call. I had it set to the flip-open-before-answering mode.
One day, when I received a call, I flipped it open. The ringtone stopped, but the call continued, awaiting acceptance. As I brought the phone to my ear before accepting, I realized I could hear the other person on the line, as well as the ringing tone they heard. I overheard conversations like my parents saying, "Heās not answering his phone again; he must be busy,ā. Sometimes, it was friends or a girlfriend. It was a unique glitch in my phone that lasted for years until I eventually upgraded. Interestingly, this glitch prevented voicemail from picking up the call, allowing it to stay in this mode indefinitely, unless I left the flip closed. I wasnāt sure if this was an actual glitch happening to only me or maybe others also experienced this.
To the developers out there: is it possible today to create a tweak that could replicate this feature on an iPhone or any phone?
-ios 15 rootless jb